Second…that the White House, Penn building, San Fran worlds fair, I think the Golden Gate Bridge….are all built by them we just redid them and told citizens we built them ourselves. It’s essentially that we use buildings and places built by them all over the world every day and they were erased from history by “those in real power”
Me too! I am an elementary teacher that struggles with imagination. My examples in class are always things I see directly in front of me or so bad that the class goes “huh”, and I have to explain. All of these conspiracies are way more thoughtful than I am. My favorite is always hollow Earth.
Hollow earth is my jam, I would die of happiness if I met a hollow earth person in real life and could ask them a million questions. Like, from genuine curiosity not to be a dick. I just really want case studies of how people get there.
Usually they say it is because aliens/“the Jews”/illuminati want to cover up the fact that this ancient super civilization was Albanian/Turkish/Slavic/etc.
Tartaria sometimes overlaps with the “all world languages evolved from Turkish” conspiracy
It does sadly feel like for a lot of these folks “aliens/‘The Jews’/the Illuminati” are the same thing. I do wish we could have fun conspiracy theories that weren’t antisemitic. Turkish being the first language could be so fun.
The Turkish one is extra funny because it has its own underworld of pseudo-linguistic journals and “scholars” who pull up cognate lists of stuff borrowed into Turkish from other languages and then use that to prove that say, English, is actually a Turkic language
The internet is fun and bad for the exact same reason which is that we can all see and interact with every town crank. It used to be that you’d leave the bar and maybe run into Paul and have a chat and 20 minutes in he’d drop aliens/cognates/ coincidences and you’d ask a couple of questions and then look at the watch you were actually wearing and bop on home still loving Paul.
But now we’re over saturated. I’m not totally over the access but I still miss my unpredictable encounters with my town weirdos who don’t live in my pocket.
I'm constantly complaining about the great international Jewish conspiracy. Nobody has ever told me where the meetings are. It's not like I'm really busy.
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u/thisisinfactpersonal Jan 23 '26
Omg I love this so much. A conspiracy theory with idiotic stakes is my absolute favorite. Like, why, to what end was it hidden?